Why would people who choose instances with downvotes be against downvotes on an instance they’re not even using?
Also, ratio of upvotes:comments could also work. Few up votes, but lots of comments from unique people could still count maybe?
Given how many men seem to have problems with basic empathy, perhaps even that should be added the list of signs of being a transfem egg /j
Some level of awareness of that experience honestly part of the reason I was hesitant to start HRT. Ewwphoria may be okay when you feel safe and are an egg. Probably isn’t nearly as nice when there’s an actual threat
Surprisingly, I haven’t missed a dose yet in the ~3 weeks since I started. Given I often struggle to get out the door without forgetting at least something so often (and I basically always just bring the same stuff), being consistent isn’t exactly my specialty. Guess its something I think about a lot or something.
[context was me telling someone I was ace, then realizing I wasn’t and depression sucks ass so bad]
Wish coming out as something and later retracting it was just normal.
everyone would just look at me like a man pretending to be a woman. A pervert. I don’t want people to look at me like a disgusting creep :/
On the plus side, it’ll help filter out people who probably rather not be friends with anyways. My mom worried about us being ostracized because of having two moms, but I figured anyone who that was enough reason to keep them from wanting to be around me were not worth my time. So I was pretty unashamed about my parents (perhaps I should have respected their privacy a bit more). It is a lot harder to feel that way when its yourself and I can’t say much given I still need to come out to some people (and I intend to stay in the eggshell at work), but at least its something I’d like to keep in mind myself.
There have been people online have who tried to guess my assigned sex at birth, and they always say AFAB.
Maybe that’s just based on the assumption that NBies are all high school girls who are following trends on tiktok or whatever that stereotype is
Colloquially, female & woman and male & man are the same. There are few situations where people use them with distinction, and I only see it used for either technical reasons (like geneticists) or a way to be casually transphobic.
They’re different parts of speech (male/female can also be a noun, but usually only done by people like disconnected from the subjects they’re describing, like cops and scientists). I mentioned that the graphic doesn’t differentiate them as a positive about it FTR.
On the other hand I’ve seen a lot of people use AFAB and AMAB when it’s completely irrelevant.
I’ve probably used it in times you’d probably think it was irrelevant as a way of avoiding making more specific claims. Easier to say what I’m not (which AMAB, imo, implies - I don’t agree it implies you ever were the thing; just that others said you were).
So honestly I kind of prefer the MTF/FTM terminologies because they’re much clearer that transition changes your sex
Back when I was a lot more ignorant about gender/sex/etc, I liked those labels because it was clear what was meant. Given transphobes will say things like “we need to stop transmen from going into the women’s bathroom” when they mean to exclude trans women, I was never 100% what was meant when they’re used.
Now I’m not a fan of them because they feel like they exclude NBs (which usually is not intended) or those who don’t medically transition.
at most a trans woman is socialized male only in the same sense a masking autistic person is socialized as a neurotypical… I could go on about this for a while
My mom certainly isn’t socialized as a girl. And she was AFAB and identifies as a woman (granted, her definition of “woman” is based 100% only on the bits she was born with). Socialization is certainly more complex than AGAB. It describes how people TRY to socialize with us. Was at a family gathering (these tend to be very woman-dominated) not long after realizing I was an egg and my cousin’s BF tried to do guy talk with me (sports or something) and quickly got bored and went to chat with my mom instead. Just kinda funny seeing that gendered socialization expectations break down in such an obvious way.
I’ve seen it, but its extremely rare compared to the number of times people on this platform accuse someone of saying that because they say something like “I’m not voting for anyone who knowingly gives weapons to other countries to commit genocide.”
https://news.gallup.com/interactives/507569/presidential-job-approval-center.aspx
At least among non-white people, his approval has gone from 80% at the start of Biden’s term to 46% now. So… he was popular with certain demographics before. Now he’s not (except democrats, liberals, and postgraduates still have an approval rating above 50%). He has a higher approval rating from boomers than non-whites now.
Doesn’t including “assigned at birth” suggest they either don’t think its immutable or that its just a social construction (or both)?
The graphic also lumps female and woman together and male and man together.
All of them apparently. But the best just does it as <15mph.
The Forester was able to provide timely warnings in all testing scenarios, and was able to slow down enough to avoid colliding with the target at 31 and 37 mph speeds. At 43 mph, AEB reduced the speed by an average of 32 mph when the motorcycle was in the center of the lane, and by 29 mph when it was offset. While that was considered “good”, it still means the Forester hit the motorcycle target at a speed of 12 mph when it was in the middle of the lane, and 14 mph when it was to the left or to the right. Either speed is still enough to do significant damage, but it only gets worse from here.
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There’s been work into functional womb transplants, but the focus has been cis women. But its not really that farfetched that it could be accomplished in the near future for trans women, but I don’t know if there’s anyone skilled/knowledgeable enough to try it and able to get ethical boards to approve it.
Personally, I do hope it is largely abolished. No clue how progress towards that is. Been a while since I’ve seen anyone who spends a lot of time advocating for it.
Glad to hear that. Just want to make sure you aren’t being unkind to yourself.
Like, I’m the sperm donor, not the one who carried them for nine months.
Neither of my moms birthed us and that doesn’t make them any less of moms. And we don’t even talk to the person who birthed us (we probably have talked to our formally anonymous sperm donor more recently and are on better terms with him). You shouldn’t let irrelevant things make you feel like you are less of a mom. If its a compromise for your children, that seems like a good enough reason to accept “dad”, but you shouldn’t feel like you would be an imposter (or you should at least realize those feelings aren’t rational).
Hopefully OP can get that cured soon.
Was confused at first because I didn’t remember seeing anything like that on spiderman.
Easy to install windows 11 as long has you have a CPU less than about 15 years old. MS just makes it slightly more inconvenient and won’t tell you that you can do that.
Need to achieve quick-swappable parts and liberate everyone from their genitals!
First (and only) time I dealt with that kind of behavior was when I wore a grape costume (the grapes were filled with balloons that were quite nice to grab and squeeze)- was an interesting way to find out how real the “look at what they’re wearing!” excuse is. Even outside of intentionally sexual touching.